Dr Phil McGraw

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

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.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A h** neva gets cold

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.