Dr Phil McGraw

The most you get is what you ask for.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

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

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.