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

“There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display,And shooting stars and constellations to befriend;The dragonflies will keep us from going astray,As we search for new adventures 'round every bend.-excerpted from the poem 'The Huge Playroom that is Nature' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY”

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

“Don't go," he says. "Your touch is the only thing keeping me from losing my mind.”

“This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”

“Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read.”