At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have.
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.