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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

'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.

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

Everybody makes mistakes.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I had an attachment disorder.

I know I can be very standoffish.

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

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

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.

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

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

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.

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

My message has always been about resilience.

My mom obviously had a problem.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.