Dr Phil McGraw

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Failure is no accident.

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.

The most beautiful girls wear their hearts on their sleeves and their souls in their smiles.

Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who’s tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I wasn’t looking to be gay. I was quite upset when I discovered that was part of my life. I wished it would go away. But you can’t change who you are. And I tried to fight it in the beginning. And then I had a cancer scare in the mid-70’s. And that turned out to be a mistake, and I thought, ‘Life is too short.’

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.

I only f**k with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.