Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

People fall forward to success.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.