Mario Puzo Quotes
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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.
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.
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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.
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.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
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.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
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.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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 not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.