The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

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 really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

I love going out and doing new things.

I love Fear Factor, but I think they're running out of fears. It's only a matter of time before they're sitting around doing shots of Hepatitis C.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Well, you know, I don't really want to trade next year. I certainly enjoyed having the jacket put on me rather than putting it on.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?