What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.