Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.