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