I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

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.

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

We testify about wonders of Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.