A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I did not even finish my studies

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

I would like it if four people did a cartwheel all at once... so I can make a cart.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.