Dr Phil McGraw

You’re FAT – and don’t try to sugarcoat it, because you’ll just eat that, too.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

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

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

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.