Dr Phil McGraw

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.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

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.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

People create their own experiences.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.