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.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
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 Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.