"That toil of growing up; The ignominy..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art.”

“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”

“A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought.”

“Progress is the ultimate motivation.”

“To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.”

“Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.”

“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”

“Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)”

“To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.”