Michael

“and still am, suspicious of the idea of oneness. I don’t buy into the homogeneity of the human experience. I don’t think we’re all one. We can be one, but I don’t think we have to see things the same way for that to be so. An anarchic thought: We’re one but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, not that we’ve got to, just that we get to.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“had an intolerance for what I perceived to be self-generated problems. In the past I’ve rushed to wrongheaded judgments. I could get angry if I saw people in corners of the world begging for a breath, fighting for their life through hunger or illness, and then see privileged people throwing their life away. I know this is deeply unsound thinking. I know people can be in such a dark place that they’ll do anything to escape it, including escaping this life itself. I know it’s not a loving response, but that was the furious me writing the lyric of “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.” I will not forsake, the colours that you bring The nights you filled with fireworks They left you with nothing I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me I listen through your ears, And through your eyes I can see.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Climbing into the ring, the best-prepared fighter is the one who has tried to understand their opponent. Especially if it’s yourself.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“When you’re open, a hitchhiker—a “randomer,” as my daughter Eve calls them—can become an angel.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story