In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

We are one.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Never let it fade away / Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Save it for a rainy day

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.