“If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.”

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’

There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.

I don’t like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Live each day, as if it we’re your last. It’s written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

The child needs a helping hand or he’ll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper… When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed.

Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.