“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.” Mario Puzo The Godfather Source: The Godfather Love , People , Secret , Time
“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.” Mario Puzo The Godfather Source: The Godfather Men , Fate , People
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.” Mario Puzo The Godfather Source: The Godfather People , Personality
“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 Godfather Source: The Godfather People , Truth , Lie