willpower

An excerpt from This Side of Paradise:

"It's the whole thing," he asserted. "It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will."

"How about great criminals?"

"They're usually insane. If not, they're weak. There is no such thing as a strong, sane criminal."

"Burne, I disagree with you altogether; how about the superman?"

"Well?"

"He's evil, I think, yet he's strong and sane."

"I've never met him. I'll bet, though, that he's stupid or insane."

"I've met him over and over and over and he's neither. That's why I think you're wrong."

"I'm sure I'm not - and so I don't believe in imprisonment except for the insane."

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of my favorite writers.