The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

Men die the way they lived.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Never be afraid to ask. The worst you'll get is 'No', but maybe you'll get a 'Yes'.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do