1.
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]
Howard Fast
2.
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
Howard Fast
3.
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
Howard Fast
4.
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
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5.
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
Howard Fast
6.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
Howard Fast
7.
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.
Howard Fast
8.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
Howard Fast