I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

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.

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

We testify about wonders of Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)