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.

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.

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.

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.

Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

What you work for, you will receive.

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Do it or don't do it but get on with it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Your dressing area should be your private space.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.