You can’t hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don’t be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You’re a very lucky fellow. – Calo.
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.
I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he’d be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals.
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn’t go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day’s writing. If you can’t start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Fredo you’re my older brother and I love you. But don’t ever take sides against the family...
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more.
I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Every family has bad memories.
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
Any man can turn traitor.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Power wears out those who do not have it.
Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.