Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

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.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions and progress. Followers think and talk about the problems and negative criticism

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I always feel very grateful when someone offers me a job.

I find drinking really helps.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.