If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.