Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Source: Entry for 15 Jan 1938; The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950, 1952; tr. 1961.
-- Cesare Pavese, (Sep 9 1908-1950), Italian poet, critic, novelist, translator; He introduced many modern U.S. and English writers to Italy.