I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

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.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.