"And your very flesh shall be a..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”

“I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'”

“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”

“The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes.”

“Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.”

“Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.”

“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”