Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
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]
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.