Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

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

Even the strongest man needs friends.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.