Dr Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

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.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I’m going to go down and take care of the bill. I’m not going to embarrass you, just let me do it. I had such a great time, I just want it to be my treat. [On returning after several minutes red faced] They won’t take my check, I don’t know what we’re going to do. [Robertson said ‘David, what we’ve spent here, we’re going to have to do a lot of dishes.’] I’m going to call Prince Rupert [Loewenstein] and ask him to call the hotel and tell them I’m good for it. Or maybe he can pay the bill and then I’ll pay him back or something. [Prince Rupert vouched for his credit and the hotel agreed to accept Geffen’s check.]

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.