The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.

I know what I want.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.