Mario Puzo Quotes

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

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.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

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.

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

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.