Johnny Cash

"I learned that running from your demons only makes them chase you harder."

"Relationships require honesty, even when the truth hurts."

"Solitude taught me more about myself than any crowd ever could."

"The legacy of a person is measured by how they treated the least among them."

"I've always found inspiration in the struggles of ordinary people."

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have power over you."

"I'm just trying to matter and leave the world a little better than I found it."

"The greatest freedom we have is the freedom to choose our attitude in any given circumstance."

"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine, because it's prone to wander down the wrong road."

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what I am capable of doing, but I do know my limitations."

"I would rather have a small part of something good than a large part of something bad."

"The man in black is there for the poor and hungry, the old and infirm. That's what I chose to be."

"Don't take yourself so seriously. Life is too short to do that."

"I wear the black for the broken-hearted and the lost."

"Music has always been a driving force and a comfort to me throughout my life."

"You can't help but to be inspired when you're around people who are so dedicated to their craft."

"The way I see it, every life has a purpose, and our job is to discover that purpose and live it."

"I've been to the mountaintop of success, and I've been to the valley of despair. I prefer the mountaintop."

"When you're lost, sometimes the best thing you can do is stop trying to find your way and just sit with where you are."

"Love is the only thing that grows when you give it away."

"A man without a dream is like a bird without wings."

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at a critical time when we are susceptible to their influence."

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

"I've learned that greatness isn't in the destination; it's in the journey and who you become along the way."

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from all the places we have been."

"I'm for the working man, and I'm always going to be for the working man."

"Time is the coin of life. It's the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent."

"Faith is believing in things unseen and undeniable."

"The most important thing I've learned in this life is how to forgive."