God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity

Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential...

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.