Dr Phil McGraw

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

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

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.

Silence is so accurate.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.