Dr Phil McGraw

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

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

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?