Bono

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.

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

I think I am basically a happy person.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

I’m a product of pop culture.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.