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

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.

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

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.