While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

There is no gift more great than love.

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.