Quotes by Denzel Washington

“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.”

“Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.”

“You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.”

“True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.”

“The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.”

“Thank God in advance for what's already yours.”

“Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.”