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

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

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

"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.'"

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21."

"You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'"

"When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered."

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."

"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."

"I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me."

"Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."

"To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think."

"We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect."

"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."

"I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life."

"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."