Dr Phil McGraw

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

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.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

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

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.