If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

He will recover, and when he is done recovering, he will be stronger than what he was before. The willpower and determination that he has, he is not done (playing basketball).

Willpower is having ice cream in the freezer and not eating it. Discipline is not bringing it into the house to begin with.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.