Your values are part of who you are. Understand them, and you make your own choices. Fail to understand them, and others decide your life's course. Values are important because they allow us to live more peacefully with others and be better able to achieve whatever goals that we set for ourselves. We aren't born with values. We learn them from our parents, teachers, and friends. We also develop our values from the media, like television, movies, and the radio. There are certain values that most people believe to be particularly important. Some of them are respect, responsibility, love, honesty,