Dr Phil McGraw

You’re FAT – and don’t try to sugarcoat it, because you’ll just eat that, too.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

That dog don’t hunt.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

I don’t write letters anymore.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Truth over Harmony.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.