Dr Phil McGraw

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

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.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

There are some sick people in this world.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

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.

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

The menu is not the meal.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.