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

The less you know, the more you believe.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.