When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and windsurfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end?
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck.
One morning, Thomas Jefferson woke up in a modest Washington rooming house, dressed, and then left the house in order to attend his inauguration as third president. When he got back, duly sworn in, he found no space left for him at the dinner table. Quietly accepting the democratic principle of first come, first served, the president of the United States went up to his room without dinner.
