Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. – Mario Puzo
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
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 Ill show you a loser, show me a hero and Ill show you a corpse. – Mario Puzo
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo