I found this quite challenging, and most of it rings true. Need to read it again and give it some more thought, but I wanted to share it.

The Three Most Important Attributes of a Decent Human
By Charles H. Sawders
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/08/guest-editorial-three-most-important.html
In this day and age when every psycho-babbling television psychologist, social worker, government agent, teacher of children and clergy are quick to list any number of attributes necessary to be a "good productive member of society", such as appreciation of diversity, multi-culturalism, and the relativism of all social and ideological structures and practices being equal, despite the consequences of any such structure, they never mention the three most important.

They are in descending order of importance Courage, Honor, Love. That's right, love is in there at a lowly third place. There are reasons for this particular ranking.