Dr Phil McGraw

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

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

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

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

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.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

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

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Man is what he believes.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I like to surprise myself.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.