Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I think the word rich is all relative.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.