Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.
Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty.
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life,” he used to say. “Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.
The man who plays alone never loses.’ ” Guiliano.
A life is sacred or it isn’t. We can’t adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.
The meeting would be safe as a wedding.
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 beyond their scope.
This country has been good to me.
I’ll tell you one thing you didn’t learn from him: talking the way you’re talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.” Michael.
Fari vagnari a pizzu.” Pizzu means the beak of any small bird such as a canary.
Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose.
But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.
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 to ask me to help.
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.
Again it was like the English he so much admired, those people who could be so subtly rude that you basked in their insults for days before you realized they had mortally wounded you.
That is Sicily,” the Don said. “There is always treachery within treachery.
Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them.
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 walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.