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.

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.

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.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.