Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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.

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.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.