Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread
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
I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
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
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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'll show you a corpse.
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
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.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.