You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

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.

It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.

Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.