Dr Phil McGraw

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

If you believe you deserve better, you will create better for yourself.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

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.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

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.’

Now I’m a warrior.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.