I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

A true man hates no one.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

The worst crime is faking it.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

You can’t do something forever.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

God made me and broke the mold.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.