A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.
Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. The Baglioni are true believers, he said. They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral...
Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He’d have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he’s dead, but he rises up again...
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn’t have t...
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendsh...
What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their famil...
He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Je...
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.Hagen: Somebody like me.Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored w...
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
The meeting would be safe as a wedding.
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come
Friendship and money: oil and water.
You can’t let other men impose their will on you or life’s not worth living.
Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was be...
People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.
Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers. Since Johnny's father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibi...
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.