Dr Phil McGraw

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

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

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

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.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.