Dr Phil McGraw

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

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

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

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

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

The things you own end up owning you.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.