The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was.

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

I don't think I can do anything. I mean, I felt I had been given a bit of a gift and a key to a kind of a future. But I've always felt there is more that I can learn and that there are many people who are as good as, or better at, what I do than I am.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

Sometimes I just rely on technique on stage, but it's not about technique. It's about how much you want to deliver the message to the audience. That's all.

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.

Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

You cant reverse fame. You can lose all the money but youll never lose people knowing you.

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me my eye and Gods eye are one eye one seeing one knowing one love.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too I thought I was the only one.

New roads; new ruts.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.