Dr Phil McGraw

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.