The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City because it was very relevant to me and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld as chief of staff had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.