Dr Phil McGraw

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

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

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

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

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.