Dr Phil McGraw

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

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

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.