“Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.”

He has a heart of gold – only harder.

When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too.

Aren’t grown up people just little children at heart?

I’m a Red-baiter; I’m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it.

All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It’s rock-solid assurance!

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

You can point to these things, and you can have that assurance.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.