Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

White Space is where the world and all distraction falls away. Where the voice of the Divine can be heard. Where the Truth of who you are is found. Where miracles happen.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.