Dr Phil McGraw

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

Awareness without action is worthless.

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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.]

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.