Dr Phil McGraw

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

People are used to being coddled.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.