Quotes from Johnny Cash

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there iss nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

And I'd be dead , but by God's grace Drive on, don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on

Trust gets you killed. Love gets you hurt. And being real gets you hated.

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand Workin' in the dark against your fellow man But as sure as God made black and white What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

Hardin wouldn't run.

Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

If this were a movie I'd be the bad guy.

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Truth, said the Master, cannot be hid But he didn't say slap it in the face of my kids.

Well, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday and tell the world that everything's okay / But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back / 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black.

My paradise:] This morning, with her, having coffee.

I myself can't go too long without real Southern fried chicken, skillet cornbread, and all the other wonderful staples of my home food.

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.