It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

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.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

He's going to bite me!Instantly the last light in the room fades out as if announcing the reign of darkness.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.