Makrand

“You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance of my son. But I have selfish reasons, my youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. All right, now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely cleared of all these false charges. But I'm a superstitious man and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightening, then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we have made here today.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.”
― Hilaire Belloc