We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.