What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.

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.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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.

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.