Bono

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. 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.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers. . .

Music can change the world because it can change people.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance.

Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it.

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible. " An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

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

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

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.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

U2 is an original species. . . there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. .