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.

- 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.

- Dave Pelzer

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

- Dave Pelzer

I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as lon…

- Dave Pelzer

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 pre…

- Dave Pelzer

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

- Dave Pelzer

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

- Dave Pelzer

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

- Dave Pelzer

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

- Dave Pelzer