The West Wing1999

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
It can't be easy being you

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
I told you...

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
I don't mean the job. I meant, you know, being inside your head.

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
What's wrong with my head?

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
I don't know.

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
Of course not, that would be $385 an hour.

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
They keep moving the goalposts on you, don't they? Get A's, good college, Latin honours. Get into the London School of Economics. Get a good teaching job. Ivy League school, tenure. Now you gotta publish, now you gotta go to Stockholm.

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
It's not good for a person to keep setting goals?

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
It probably is, but it's tricky for somebody who's still trying to get his father to stop hitting him.

President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:
Well, I'm told that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Dr. Stanley Keyworth:
Yeah, but that's most men. That's not you. That's the other people, the ones who feel stress. You're destined for something else.