"You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals."

"Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks."

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

"First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity."

"It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are. I would look at us and say we've got a chance (to win it all)."

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."

"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart."

"Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself."

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

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

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

"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."