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

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.

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%.

...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.

True love stories never have endings.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.