Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
It's always too early to quit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Who seeks shall find.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do 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.