Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

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.

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.