Your mere presence is depriving some village of its idiot. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. A good safeguard against insanity is to never let yourself be driven up the wall by a chaotic conception of the screwed up thinking that drove you bananas in the first place. I remember, I do and I understand. Better problem solvers don't necessarily have better hardware, they have better software.
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Doubt is the darkroom where negatives are developed. If you don't see what you want, make it. You don't have to better than everyone else, just better than the day before. Opportunity is like a bald man. You have to confront it head on because there is nothing to grab on to as it goes by.