Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I’m a real estate guy.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.