Quotes by : Mario Puzo

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross....

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed....

He said to the cardinal, "I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken....

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together....

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.....

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not....