Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.

I gave it my absolute everything I had in that howl at the start of the song. And then B. B. King opened up his mouth and I felt like a girl. We had learned and absorbed, but the more we tried to be like B.B., the less convincing we were.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.