Dr Phil McGraw

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

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Courage is grace under pressure.

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

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.