The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.

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.

Every family has bad memories.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

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