And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.