Dr Phil McGraw

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

God is a loving god.

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.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

Always pack your uniform on top.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny