Dr Phil McGraw

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

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Now ask yourself if you’re really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won’t. So, that means you might lose weight while you’re on it, but you’ll probably gain it back when you’re off it because you haven’t made any real lifestyle changes.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

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.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

There are some sick people in this world.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.