"I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them."

"I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most."

"Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be."

"Religion often gets in the way of God."

"I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house."

"The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister."

"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."

"If I don't understand it, it must be art."

"To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!"

"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."

"There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place."

"It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it."

"What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now It was a beautiful day."

"It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others."

"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."

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

"Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness."

"I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name"

"What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas."

"People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear."

"People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument."

"A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)"

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

"Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid."

"The lyrics aren't literature. they're just part of the story."

"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."

"I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)"

"If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice."

"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

"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."

"Babe, it must be art"

"I dont know you. And you don't know the half of it."

"On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open"

"I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London."

"There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

"I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."

"I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners."

"It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits."

"Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything."

"Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed."

"It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction."

"The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two."

"I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles."

"I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling."

"My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg."

"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

"There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge."

"I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill."

"We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe."