Who seeks shall find.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.