The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

There's no smoke without fire.

If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.