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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.