Dr Phil McGraw

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

The people change, the common denominator is you.

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

Do it! People who succeed don’t just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they’re looking for.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

The more natural, the better.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.