Dreams are great -- that's why it's fun to buy Lotto tickets. But dreams realized can't ever be as great as the anticipation, near as I can tell from my own experience. No, I never won a Lotto, but have realized some other dreams, and they're no longer any fun.

Ambitions often change as we get into doing what it takes to realize an ambition. I'm reading "Team of Rivals" right now and find even the most successful among us (like Abe Lincoln) have no idea where their life is...