We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.
Mario PuzoWhat we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario PuzoIt can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
Mario PuzoI spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Mario Puzo