“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”

“This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.”

“Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

“One who fails to observe mental and physical phenomena every time they arise cannot see them as merely mental and physical phenomena. Furthermore, one does not realize their causality, impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, notself, or their immediate disappearance upon arising and their continuous disappearance thereafter. Therefore, one mistakenly identifies these mental and physical phenomena with a personal entity, a person who is either born without any cause or created by a creator. One mistakes them for someone or something permanent and pleasant, everlasting, and unchanging.”

“There are no physical problems—only mental ones.”

“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”

“The pious man is nothing but a prince who is obeyed by his senses, and by his mental as well as his physical faculties”

“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”

“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”

“There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.”