Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years.

The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.

Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year.

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

Who could trust language?

The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

I very much support financial education in schools.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.