Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.