A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
People fall forward to success.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.