Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Only the educated are free.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.