Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it. You can. We have.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

Don't be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you've been.

Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records.

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-sat-isfied man.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Comfort, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.