Dr Phil McGraw

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

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.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Old guys can still do fun things.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.