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

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

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.

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.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.