That love has to always exist.

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.

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.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.