Well done is better than well said.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.