“When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.”

“What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.”

“Place your hopes in the man from whom you do not inherit”

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.”

“every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them. ”

“People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.”