Dr Phil McGraw

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

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

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

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

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.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.

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

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough