I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

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.

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth.

Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.