Quotes from Mario Puzo

Friendship and money: oil and water.

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.

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

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.

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

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul." Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

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.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

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

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.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

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

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

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

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

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

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.