All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

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 church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.