Dr Phil McGraw

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I like to surprise myself.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.