If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.

M. F. K. Fisher, from her 1943 b

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little.

Lafcadio Hearn

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

Jeremy Northam

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Wil Zeus

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Colin Quinn

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

James Otis

I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.

Jai Courtney

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Ioanni

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Cassandra Clare