Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

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.

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

You judge people as you meet them.

I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.