Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!

Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving.

It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.