Dr Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

There are some sick people in this world.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.