Dr Phil McGraw

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.

God is a loving god.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn’t sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

Lasting love and forgiveness are two sides of the same page.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before you will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

A friend is a second self.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.