My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

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 was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

To constantly see one’s own self as ‘Pure’, and to see other’s self as ‘pure’, is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog).

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay

Sometimes your loved one doesn't understands that you need them, It hurts but when they say they knows you very well it hurts even more as u know its not true.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.