What you have inherited from your fathers, earn it, so that you may possess it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you can't dream it, you can't think it.
If you can't think it, you can't write it.
If you can't write it, you can't understand it.
If you can't understand it, you can't know it.
If you can't know it, you can't love it.
If you can't love it, you can't keep it.
If you can't keep it, you can't hand it down.
If you can't hand it down, it was never yours to begin with.