If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

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.

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Come here. I need to hold on to you." She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.