Dr Phil McGraw

You have to name it to claim it.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

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

This is no dress rehearsal.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.