Dr Phil McGraw

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

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

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It’s an epidemic-level problem.

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

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

I am not young enough to know everything.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

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.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.