My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

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.

The path to Enlightenment is simple: Forgiveness, Acceptance, and Love.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.