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

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.

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

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.

Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.