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.

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 . . .

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

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.

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

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.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

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.

You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.