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.
—Mario Puzo
Topics: Kindness
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
—Mario Puzo
Topics: Helping
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo
Topics: Loyalty
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.
—Mario Puzo
Topics: Gambling
Friendship and money: oil and water.
—Mario Puzo
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