Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

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

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

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

Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.