Dr Phil McGraw

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

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

I don’t write letters anymore.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

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

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

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