Dr Phil McGraw

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.