Dr Phil McGraw

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

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

Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

There are some sick people in this world.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

I don’t know how to drive.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.