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.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

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

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

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.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.