Dr Phil McGraw

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

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

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

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.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.