Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.