Dr Phil McGraw

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.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

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

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.