Bono Quotes

Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we cane
But you I'm sure I've met
Long before the night the stars went out
We're meeting up again

The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common

When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

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

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

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

It takes great faith to have no faith.

If she loves books, there is nowhere she can’t go;