Yzk Institute Quotes

#1. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Robin Jones Gunn

#3. Law of Conservation of Reality; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?

Carrie Fisher

#5. Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Seth Godin

#6. Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Anne Lamott

#8. Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.

Zoe Lofgren

#9. I know, but with the monsters still after me, I need a beast, not an angel.

K.A. Merikan