Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's always too early to quit.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.