Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

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.

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.