Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

I grew up as a country boy.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.