Dr Phil McGraw

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

People create their own experiences.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

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.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.