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

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.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.