It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

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

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

What 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.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

It's just business nothing personal.