I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

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.

If you truly love someone You don’t need to be faithful It will just happen.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.