I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

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.

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, " Because I like your face.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.