Dr Phil McGraw

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

That dog don’t hunt.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.