Weakness

— And your defect is to hate everybody.

— And yours, — he replied with a smile, — is willfully to misunderstand them.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.
All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog.

Self-indulgence is back of evil.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone... way down deep, use words.

People turn so quickly from weakness or the shadow of it.
To get away from failure—even the mere suspicion of it—that seems to be a subconscious feeling with the average man and woman; we all avoid non-success as though we fear that it may prove contagious.

Chains don't have kinks. Horses have kinks. Chains have weak links.