Dr Phil McGraw

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.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

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

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

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

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

People are used to being coddled.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.