As Vito himself said, "Women and children can afford to be careless. But not men." That's part of a major subtheme in the Trilogy: mistakes and misjudgments are deadly.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.