I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Gratitude heals, cleanses and purifies.

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.

Being unashamedly Muslim while excelling in whatever you do is of the greatest forms of Dawah.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.