What starts out to be an exaggeration, and even a great joke, can turn into a lie. The worst lie is to hurt someone intentionally, but equally sad is the lie told for pure self-defense, or to spare someone the truth. There are those who will believe a lie - which is more in their understanding than the truth.

So much drama and so much pretense makes lying acceptable to those living in false existence. To find the right path, get rid of the habit of lying. It is a trap that looks innocent but the effects lead to wrongdoing.

Our fathers gave us many laws . . . that it was a disgrace to tell a lie: that we should speak only the truth.

Time equalizes rivalry so that love and friendship finally have a chance to bloom. But the long wait is not necessary. It can happen as soon as one person is glad because another person is glad.

Love is not dependent on deserving it. If that were so, not of us would be loved and most would be barbarians. Who we are is not what someone else made us to be - but what we thought and said we could be. Love is cultivated so that we can communicate it to each other.

Everyone makes his feast as he things best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all created beings.

Neither people nor animals take time to analyze right and wrong when they are cornered. They react in the only way they know how - most backing away when they have the chance.

On the other hand, some are not wise enough to see the chance to rethink the situation. They run roughshod and take what they want. Is there no tomorrow? Life balances things in ways we cannot understand. Use your heart - see that like attracts like - those who destroy will be destroyed.

Why should you take by force from us that which you can obtain by love?