"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."

"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."

"I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play."

"Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war."

"I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it."