Dr Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

There are some sick people in this world.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The most you get is what you ask for.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.