I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.
When I make decisions, I'm not thinking about my parents. I'm thinking about my children.
You're only as good as what you've been. You can't rely on the past.
Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.
