The underlying fundamentals remain decent, but the pessimism is getting higher. The biggest hindrance right now is oil prices, part and parcel with Iraq.

We still have quite a bit of pessimism right now. That's conducive to further rallying.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we're running out of resources or in a terrible mess--they are idiots. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells.

We will not be moving forward. It's disappointing that we couldn't bring this to fruition right now.