"I’m afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one..."

“Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives”

Source : Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.145, Penguin

“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.”

“I very much believe in the collective work and the team dynamic.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle. Can I say that?”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Pat Condell"/ "More Demands From Islam", www.youtube.com. October 9, 2007.

“Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”

“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.”

“I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.”

“Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins