Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.