“Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.”

“The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.”

“The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief's face.”
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

“In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.”

“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.”

“The greatest sermons are the ones given with a closed mouth and an open heart.”

“The path ahead is wide open and you feel a sense of emptiness; in the moment, you realize your heart is empty and the one who can make it overflow with joy, never will.”

“The mind of a traveler has only one spotlight, and it is always trained on the present scene.”