I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

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.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.