“The trick was to surrender to the flow.”

— The Lizards (Phish)

“Let your life proceed by its own design.”

— Cassidy (The Grateful Dead)

“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”

— Michelle Obama

“Some folks look for answers, others look for fights. Some folks up in treetops, just lookin' for their kites.”

— Playing in the Band (The Grateful Dead)

“Breathe easy. Think slowly. Dream focused.”

— Anchor Drops (Umphrey's McGee)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

— John F. Kennedy

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

— Mr. Rogers

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

— Frederick Douglass

"Live long and prosper."

— Spock

"Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

— Jean-Luc Picard

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

— Carl Sagan

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires."

— Susan B. Anthony

"National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars."

— Carl Sagan

"We respect the past, but we don’t pine for the past. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it."

— Barack Obama

"Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— George Scialabba (paraphrased)

“If you get confused, listen to the music play.”

— Franklin's Tower (The Grateful Dead)