People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

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.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

changing lives started with changing my own.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.