I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Do you think I'm pretty?”He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful.”"Beautiful?”"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

My heart is definitely here, and there's no place like home.