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.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Every family has bad memories.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

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.