If you're going through hell, keep going.
Wherever you are - be all there.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.