MARIO PUZO, THE GODFATHER

“The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.”

“You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

Frodo: “What are we holding onto, Sam?”
Sam: “That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

“No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else.”

“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.”

“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.”

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.”

“In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through,if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.”

”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.”

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.”

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.”