“Even the strongest man needs friends.”

“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'...”

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive”

“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

“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.”

“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”