Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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