The Friars' Creed Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow men are just as real as you are, and to try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life.                                                                                        ~ Henry Van Dyke Although no one is quite sure where or when the creed came into existence, its message is carried on by each Friar class and is the motto by which Friars strive to achieve in not only their community service projects each semester, but in their everyday lives.