Dr Phil McGraw

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We’re not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don’t know how to manage our emotions once we’re in a marriage; we don’t know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.