You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

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.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

As you start your day, are you wondering what you will reap, or are you wondering what you will sow?

It's funny but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune and you never know when it will befall you.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.