We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

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.

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.