If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Who seeks shall find.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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.