Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
You never know what motivates you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.