Dr Phil McGraw

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

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

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Failure is no accident.

Insight emerges out of silence.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

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.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

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

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.