Dr Phil McGraw

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

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

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

I don’t write letters anymore.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.