War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth because the truth is that I am fat and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat I agree whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Live truth instead of professing it.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not we cry.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel instead of broadening the mind often merely lengthens the conversation.

When you're an artist there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love you're just depressed so you don't move so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Look folks we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you we should be thanking you. We owe you.

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology but still in the old style.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice instead of what we have today a voice network struggling to carry data.