To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Know or listen to those who know.
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.