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.

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.

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.

Technically, we're all half centaur.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.

It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.

Science is about knowing engineering is about doing.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.