Money can indeed solve certain problems (those that are connected to its lack), but families with plenty of money can also be quite troubled and confused and hurt. Money is such a vexing matter to so many of us in a world so sensitive to both its presence and absence that it can generate its own kind of difficulties for people who may seem to have everything, but who know full well what they don't have, or yearn to have more plentifully: affection, self-respect, membership in a community of neighbors or colleagues at work, those bonds that are priceless.

- Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis series from the foreword to The Legacy of Inherited Wealth