Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

Energy is the currency of the universe. When you 'pay' attention to something, you buy that experience.

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.