I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

An angel of God never has wings.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Yoga makes me feel really sexy.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

As long as we're together

Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

Live and “love to be fascinated.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.