In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

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

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.