"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."

Margaret Walker, American poet and writer

From the University of Iowa, Dr. Margaret Walker was a gifted intellectual, known for fighting for equal treatment for the Amreican blacks (1915-1998). (Photo courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."

Richard Whately, logician, rhetorician, economist, philosopher

From Oxford University, Richard Whately was a great rhetorician and thinker in England and Ireland (1787 -1863). (Photo courtesy of United States Public Domain)

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Clarence Thomas, United States Supreme Court Judge

Educated at Yale Law School, Clarence Thomas struggled from abject poverty as a child to become a top judge in the United States (born 1948). (Photo courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, US Federal Government)