Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

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 someone says you've changed, it's because you are no longer willing to live your life their way

Give a man a teacher

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

I don't know, maybe it's just timely, or maybe it's the fact that I live in a house with four women, but I just find my thoughts kind of skewing that direction at the moment.

Hard work's a good distraction.