It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

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.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Meditation is listening to the divine within

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!