He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
I don’t trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don’t talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money and power on earth.
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.