I don't mind only kissing Nina Dobrev

With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

As everybody knows, chicks dig the vampires.

I don't ship anyone. I really don't. I'm not a shipper, but I'm all for men duking it out for a chick.

That love has to always exist.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

I don't like what you're doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today