The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
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.