When I think about country music, I think about America.

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.

Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.

May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul.

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.