Dr Phil McGraw

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

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

Stand up and walk out of your history.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

A man is as old as his arteries.

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

Who is wise? He who learns from all men.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

I am not young enough to know everything.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.