We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

... let the weak say, I am strong.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you-gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger. He will lose his battle, and with the shame will be hurt also.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

We have allowed a soft sentimentalism to form the atmosphere we breathe. And in that kind of atmosphere, a diffuse desire to do good has become a substitute for tough-minded plans and operations-a substitute for strategy.