"Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up."

“I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important. He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.”

“We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion”

Source : "5 Ways Ian Somerhalder Has Taught Me to Live Life" by Dina Khayal, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2013.

“The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.”

“The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.”

“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”

“She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“May all of your cards be live and may all of your pots be monsters,”

“Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.”

Source : Freethought Today (unidentified article/page), April 2000.