Dr Phil McGraw

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

Courage is grace under pressure.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.