Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Never complain and never explain.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.