"[to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. [looks in anguish at Sonny's bullet-ridden body] Look how they massacred my boy!"

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

"Alex Rocco – Moe Greene"

"[to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco kills Paulie Gatto] Leave the gun. Take the Cannoli."

"Al Lettieri – Virgil "the Turk" Solozzo"

"John Marley – Jack Woltz"

"Richard Castellano – Pete Clemenza"

"John Cazale – Fredo Corleone"

"Gianni Russo – Carlo Rizzi"

"Robert Duvall – Tom Hagen"

"Just keep saying to yourself "I'm adequate.""

"There are no masses in Virginia City, only individuals whose will for good or bad can bring them to the ends they ought to have. I like that very much."

"Dear friends, would those of you who know what this is all about please raise your hands?"

"I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death. Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong — we never left the Garden. Look about you. This is paradise. It's hard to find, I'll grant you, but it is here. Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. The earth is shining under the soot. We are all fools. Ha ha! Moriarty has made fools of all of us. But together, — you and I, tonight, — we'll bring him down."