We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

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.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

Love can only be generated from the depths of the human heart

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.