The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

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

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

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

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

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

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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

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