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.

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

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

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

Friendship and money: oil and water.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

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