Dr Phil McGraw

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Old guys can still do fun things.