I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered].

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill..

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up..

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin..

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish ….

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age..

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job..

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever.