"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."

"A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'"

"A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father."

"As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate."

"I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that."

"It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'"

"I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did."

"I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful."

"I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks."

"If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out."

"I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies."

"The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will."

"In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away."

"Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular."