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.

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.

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.

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.

ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.