The world is what it is, and you are what you are.
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 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...
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.
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
You can’t let other men impose their will on you or life’s not worth living.
Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.
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...
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.
None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it’s too hard a life.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show yo...
The meeting would be safe as a wedding.
Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.