50 quotes
And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Experiment more and don't let people box you in. There is nothing you can't put on your canvas if it is part of your life.
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
"We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it".
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Teenage kids have no sense of mortality — yours or theirs.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
We love the crackle and the hustle, we love the spirit that gives the finger to fate, the spirit that says there's no hurdle we can't clear and no problem we can't fix.
PENN Address (2004)
I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned — I'm Irish.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign.
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war... God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
"Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common"
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.
PENN Address (2004)
All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
I don't mind being arrested for putting on a free concert, but I don't want to be arrested for being a vandal. I am a vandal and I do regret what I did. I really do regret it. It was dumb.
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of Africa is one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's easily going to make the top five, what we did or what we did not do.
PENN Address (2004)
I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
"I am saying we are great. I'm not saying I'm great. There's a difference..."
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)