I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.