Dr Phil McGraw

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

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

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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