Dave Pelzer

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

Childhood should be carefree playing in the sun not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

You can be a victim of cancer or a survivor of cancer. Its a mindset.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

I buy thousands of books a year.

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

I know I can be very standoffish.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

Build on past successes be grateful for what you do have and know that this too shall pass. Its only for the now. Whatever were facing its not forever.

I had an attachment disorder.

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

Everybody makes mistakes.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

My message has always been about resilience.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

My mom obviously had a problem.

To help yourself you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake learn from it pick yourself up and move on.