What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

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

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

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

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

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.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery