I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

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 need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.