"You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you."

"You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education."

"The Internet can be used to hurt many people."

"Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain."

"Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them."

"I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that."

"It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man."

"If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform."

"If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame."

"If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive."

"The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies."

"It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again."

"I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life."

"I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father."

"When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'"

"My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent."

"Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating."

"I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours."

"I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer."

"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."

"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."

"I don't do online banking."

"In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect."

"I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes."

"The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera."

"The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it."

"If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity."

"Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life."

"Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman."

"I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot."

"I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering."

"If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'."

"We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics."

"By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce."

"Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively."

"I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did."

"There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering."

"I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences."

"Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent."

"There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools."

"People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long."

"The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity."

"I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City."

"If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity."

"Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts."

"You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone."

"You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive."

"We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely."

"The truth is, your identity already has been stolen."

"Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy."