Bono Quotes

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?