Legacy is just the stuff people keep quoting after you’re gone.

What outlasts a person is rarely an achievement, it is a sentence. A way of putting something, a rule of thumb, a joke that gets repeated at the table for decades. Those lines survive because they were said often enough and plainly enough to stick, not because anybody set out to be memorable.

Notice what you say repeatedly, since that is the raw material. If there is something you actually believe, say it out loud to people rather than assuming it shows. Plain sentences travel a great deal further than impressive ones.