Dr Phil McGraw

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

People are used to being coddled.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

I’m not a politician.

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

Now ask yourself if you’re really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won’t. So, that means you might lose weight while you’re on it, but you’ll probably gain it back when you’re off it because you haven’t made any real lifestyle changes.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.