My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

When I first broke through there was only NBC CBS and ABC and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else I owe money.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew who had money to be generous with should be a stockbroker.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I grew up in the '80s and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

I broke down while at Oxford was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.