Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies

Gambling Is Not As Destructive As War Or As Boring As Pornography. It Is Not As Immoral As Business Or As Suicidal As Watching Television. And The Percentages Are Better Than Religion.

The Other Dons In The Room Applauded And Rose To Shake Hands With Everybody In Sight And To Congratulate Don Corleone And Don Tattaglia On Their New Friendship. It Was Not Perhaps The Warmest Friendship In The World, They Would Not Send Each Other Christmas Gift Greetings, But They Would Not Murder Each Other. That Was Friendship Enough In This World, All That Was Needed.

The Truth Now.he Was Disappointed In Human Beings.he Had Seen Too Many Betrayals,too Many Pitiful Weaknesses,too Much Greed For Money And Fame.the Falseness Between Lovers,husbands And Wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters

He Had Long Ago Learned That Society Imposes Insults That Must Be Borne, Comforted By The Knowledge That In This World There Comes A Time When The Most Humble Of Men, If He Keeps His Eyes Open, Can Take His Revenge On The Most Powerful.

Time Erodes Gratitude More Quickly Than It Does Beauty!