“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”
“...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.”
“Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.”
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”