I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

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.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.