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.

According to Richard Clarke the former White House counterterrorism chief Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time there is no hope of ever solving them.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their head or the care that they need when they come home.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.