Never complain and never explain.
Well done is better than well said.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.