If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.