V.I. Arnold Quotes

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

It's got to be done and done quickly, so let's get it done.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

My music is not lovely.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Offense is the essence of air power.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.

Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

You cannot get tired if you're interested in what you do. That's the key thing.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.