You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.
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.
My mom obviously had a problem.
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.
Everybody makes mistakes.
I had an attachment disorder.
I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
I am a very shy, introverted guy.
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
My message has always been about resilience.
I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. To be pluggish.
I'm always looking for a story of survival.
I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.
My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.
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.
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.