Dr Phil McGraw

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

There is no reality, only perception.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

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

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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.