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" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "

" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "

" I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught. "

" If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "

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

" 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 never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero. "

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

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

" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "

" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "

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

" 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. "