"We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern."

"Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. 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."

"There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card."

"I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.'"

"Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to."

"When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print."

"Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability."

"I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"An idea is salvation by imagination"

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an "architect "can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work."

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit."

"Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

"If it sells, it's art."

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."

"Less is more only when more is too much."

"Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old."

"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."

"Freedom lies within."

"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."

"The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"To me, young has no meaning. It’s something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it."

"The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on."

"Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust."

"The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site."

"Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy."

"Space is the breath of art."

"Life is truth..."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

"The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957"

"...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."