Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

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.

Patience is the food of understanding.

The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.