Dr Phil McGraw

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

Failure is no accident.

Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It’s an epidemic-level problem.

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

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Wide awake and so confused.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

I don’t write letters anymore.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.