Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

— Bono

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

— Bono

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

— Bono

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

— Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

— Bono

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

— Bono

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

— Bono

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course, they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

— Bono

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it's rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest assholes I've ever met are the most gifted. Because it's "pretty girl" syndrome. Being gifted is like being born beautiful. You don't have to work a day in a year in your life for it. You were born with it. In one sense, it's like blue blood, money, gift, or beauty. They are the things that should make you the most humble, because they are not the things you have earned. They are the things you were given. Yet, it is my experience that they male people the most spoiled. And the people who work the hardest, and who have overcome the most obstacles on their life, who have reason to beat their breasts are the humblest, sometimes. I can't get over that. It's bewildering to me. To make it through success and still have manners, to still have curiosity, intellectual curiosity, to still have some grace, to keep your dignity, that is really... rare.

— Bono