I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Oh yeah... I know where we are going.... now making me to get angry... and to make me say stuff which I don't want to say.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.