“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“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”Mario Puzo
“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.”Mario Puzo book The FamilySource: The Family
“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“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.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“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”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”Mario Puzo
“Life is like a box of Hand grenades, You never know what will blow you to kingdom come”Mario Puzo book The Last DonSource: The Last Don
“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”Mario Puzo The GodfatherSource: The Godfather
“Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.”Mario Puzo book Fools DieSource: Fools Die