I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like

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

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.