I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

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.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Love happens when people forgive.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.