There is nothing they [Russian leaders] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.