Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

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

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

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

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

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

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

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