The greatest truth is honesty and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
O man you are busy working for the world and the world is busy trying to...
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.