My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

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 proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.

The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.