There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

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

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!