Ron Jeffries

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.