The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
You never know what motivates you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.