"It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss."

“Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.”

“I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over...”

“Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.”

“Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.”

Source : "James Brown: The Godfather of Soul". Book by James Brown, Bruce Tucker, 1986.

“O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.”

“A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.”

“I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.”

“Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?”