When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.