Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

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

Friendship and money: oil and water.

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.

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.

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.