Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.