Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Never complain and never explain.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.