Quotes from Mario Puzo

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.

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 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

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

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.

Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

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.

it's just business nothing personal...

Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...

I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. 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. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

When they come... they come at what you love.

Life is Beautiful

Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Any man can turn traitor.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.