"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults"
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone"
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
— Mario Puzo

"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)

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
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— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

""Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...""
— Mario Puzo

"Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."

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Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important."
— Mario Puzo (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 Godfather)

"Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Take the gun. Leave the cannoli."
— Mario Puzo

"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 Godfather)

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Great men are not born great, they grow great . . ."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

""Power wears out those who do not have it.""
— Mario Puzo

"it's just business nothing personal..."
— Mario Puzo

"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)

""Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone"
— Mario Puzo

"I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit. "
— Mario Puzo (Fools Die)

"Don Vito Coreleone to Michael Coreloeone, "Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold"
"rejunah", "caporegimes", "Omerta""
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster"
— Mario Puzo (Fools Die)

""No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.""
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"A lawyer can steal more money with a brief case than a thousand men with pistols"
— Mario Puzo

"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)

"A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man"
— Mario Puzo

"Power isn't everything ...its the only thing."
— Mario Puzo (The Last Don)

"Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster"
— Mario Puzo

"Life is Beautiful"
— Mario Puzo (The Sicilian)

"She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
— Mario Puzo

"going to the mattresses"
— Mario Puzo

"Tell my father i wish to be his son."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer."
— Mario Puzo

"They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal."
— Mario Puzo

"In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
— 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 (The Family)