Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

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]

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

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.

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.

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

The MAIN thing is to MAINTAIN!

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

My advice is to run while you can.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.