Dr Phil McGraw

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

This is no dress rehearsal.

The people change, the common denominator is you.

You have to name it to claim it.

The most you get is what you ask for.

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

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

I think I always feel like if everything went to shit, I would just teach improv at a theatre.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.