"I've always felt that life should be an adventure, that every day should be important ... There can be no doubt that the last three years have certainly been an adventure for me and for all of you. Though it was stressful -- very stressful -- I can say that I don't regret everything."

"(The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day out, tasks that are difficult and challenging and they're going to be aware of what it takes to be an apprentice at Martha Stewart Living."

"I am taking this action today because it is in the best interests of MSO and because I think it's the right thing to do,"

"[The bummer of it all is that Dowd is right about the female need to use aggression only as a stealth weapon. The hazard of hitting the big five-oh and beyond is an erroneous sense that you've earned the right not to play by the same rules. Once the hormonal brakes come off, it's easy to crash.] I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, ... I fell in a hole."

"We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and [launched] the Martha Stewart Kids magazine, ... These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders."

"[No doubt, she will continue to drive her comeback the only way she knows how: full speed ahead. She even holds out the possibility that she could return to the chairman post of her company someday.] I have learned, ... that I really cannot be destroyed."

"[Speaking of her stint this summer taping] The Apprentice, ... I had a great experience."

"It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision."

"It's a how-to show with entertainment and a live audience, ... It's not a talk show ? I don't see a couch anywhere."

"I have been so much looking forward to starting anew this September, ... I have a great enthusiasm for living, a great enthusiasm for the kinds of things that living brings us. All those things we've been writing about and talking about and doing - this is my life and this is a really great way to spend time."

"He's a great guy. He's very interesting, incredibly entertaining,"

"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."

"I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas."

"Without a sense of teamwork I think it's really hard to build a great business."

"to seek out new challenges."

"Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding."

"It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am still a vibrant, wise human being with great dreams for the future, great hopes for the future, a great team to work with and a really great company to be involved with, ... I mean, this is my life."

"I had hoped for, at the most, some confinement, community service, ... And instead I have five months of incarceration, and five months of house arrest that's monitored. ... But it could have been worse. ... Five months versus 10 months or 16 months ... That's a good thing."

"Dear Friends: I am obviously distressed by the jury's verdict but I take comfort in knowing that I have done nothing wrong and that I have the enduring support of my family and friends."

"It feels great to be home -- do you guys want any coffee or donuts -- I haven't had breakfast yet,"

"There's a conundrum, ... My company needs me. I would like to get back to work. I would like this to be over."

"So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers."

"If you would be so kind to write such a letter, please include your opinion of my character, my work ethic, my integrity and my probity,"

"Although I am increasingly hopeful that my personal legal situation will be resolved in the near future, it is still inappropriate for me to discuss anything relating to them on this call,"

"They have a lot of time to think and plan for the future, and they should be encouraged to,"

"You have to watch the clock constantly because you're only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult."

"As the original 'Apprentice,' it's an honor to join my mother each week in the conference room, ... Having contributed to almost every aspect of her business empire, I know first hand what it will take for one of these sixteen candidates to win the competition and I'm not afraid to call them out in the conference room."

"So, Jeffrey, you just don't fit. Goodbye."

"What the heck are girls walking around in Dutch outfits selling tulips... what do they have to do with the brand?"

"In placing my trade I had no improper information. My transaction was entirely lawful."

"I love all of you from the bottom of my heart, ... and I'm really glad to be back home."

"I'm used to all kinds of hard work, as you know. I'm not afraid whatsoever."

"Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that."

"I look forward to collaborating with Mark... to bring more of our unique blend of original high-quality, educational and inspirational programming to our loyal viewers and new programming to new audiences in prime time next year,"

"[On her reputation for hubris] I have sometimes, probably, forgotten -- and I know I have -- to pat the back of someone or said 'thank you' enough times or maybe even once sometimes, ... I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person....If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant."

"When they were preparing for trial, prosecutors had a responsibility to ask [Agent Stewart] -- 'you didn't write the first report, you didn't sign off on it -- were you there?'"

"I am very interested in entrepreneurial initiative. Wherever I find it, I'm always encouraging it ... and trying to give them good advice, sound advice...."

"The board of directors (at Martha Stewart Living) may be a little nervous"

"to show what Martha Stewart Living was really all about to the broadest possible audience, the kind of executive that I really am and the kind of work we do."

"We tried very hard to choose contestants that would be good for a job at Martha Stewart Living, ... It's not very different from what reality is."

"She's disappointed over feeling like her life was wasted. Everything she did is ignored over something ... trivial, that maybe didn't happen,"

"Take a New Look at Living."

"[He also considered how his sentence on] a young, black woman entertainer ... an older white woman entertainer."

"This is a victory for the little guys ... No one is above the law."

"I didn't cheat the little people. ... We're all little people. I didn't cheat anybody out of anything."

"I am heartsick about my personal legal situation -- and deeply sorry for the pain and difficulties it has caused our employees."