You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

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.

There is no need for comparison. Be happy with yourself and find satisfaction in your work.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Let's all try to conserve water. But it's OK to shower.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.