Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

You can't just play the way The Grateful Dead plays without working at it. It's not something that is easy or just happened to us. There was a long, slow process that brought that into being.