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

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.

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

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

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 Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

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

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

My love is toxic and you're suicidal.

Be life.

Be a partaker, it’s the period of the end-time harvest

I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.