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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
---- Eleanor Roosevelt

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
----Plato

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
----Mark Twain

What its children become, that will the community become.
----Suzannea LaFollette