"Talented performers flock to the best and..." - Quote by John C Maxwell

“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”

“I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.”

“The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.”

“Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.”

“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]”

“What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.”

“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”

“One of the thing about being President - that can't be taught, you have to experience, is - there is the sheer weight of decision making. And when I make a decision to send 17,000 young Americans to Afghanistan - you can understand that intellectually. But understanding what that means for those families, for those young people - when you end up sitting at your desk, signing - a condolence letter to one of the family members of a fallen hero - you're reminded each and every day, at every moment, that - the decisions you make count.”

“A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.”