I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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 you a corpse.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery.
Tell my father I wish to be his son.
Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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.
It can be argued that man’s instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
We don’t know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.