“In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.”

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Players win games, and coaches win players.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

What builds character? It’s a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed.

If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?