If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?
如果你从未尝试过,你怎么知道是否有机会?
"The silence around words is as important as the words themselves."
"The story you don’t write is the one that haunts you."
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.  
Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser, and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.