Quotes from Bono

So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.

I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)

I mostly find religiosity annoying, right up at the top of the annoying is the pigheaded certainty of the devout without the doubt.

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

Climbing into the ring, the best-prepared fighter is the one who has tried to understand their opponent. Especially if it's yourself.

If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

If you're not at the table you're on the menu?

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything. Like how not to react when there is a crisis. Like how to stay still and maybe even unearth levity from the seriousness of a situation. Edge is the silence inside every noise. He's the light inside the paint.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Well, while I hope God is with those of us who live such comfortable lives, I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list

You can disagree on everything but still work together on one thing... if that one thing is important enough.

When you're open, a hitchhiker—a "randomer," as my daughter Eve calls them—can become an angel.

and still am, suspicious of the idea of oneness. I don't buy into the homogeneity of the human experience. I don't think we're all one. We can be one, but I don't think we have to see things the same way for that to be so. An anarchic thought: We're one but we're not the same. We get to carry each other, not that we've got to, just that we get to.

Wailing, keening, trying to explain the unexplainable. Trying to release himself and anyone who will listen from the prison of a human experience that cannot explain grief.

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.

My fear is that I/we have fallen asleep in the comfort of our freedom.

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il fiume Giungerai a me Oltre i confini E le terre assetate Dici che come fiume Come fiume L'amore giunger L'amore E non so pi pregare E nell'amore non so pi sperare E quell'amore non so pi aspettare

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't.

Songs are my prayer

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.