The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

The body says what words cannot.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.