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's just business nothing personal.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

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

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

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 spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.