Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

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.