“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”

“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.*توما الحكيم”

“An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.”

“Commitment isn’t about being perfect, always following through, or never going astray. Commitment means that when you (inevitably) stumble or get off track, you pick yourself up, find your bearings, and carry on in the direction you want to go.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”