Dr Phil McGraw

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

People are used to being coddled.

Do it! People who succeed don’t just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they’re looking for.

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.

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

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

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.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.