Dr Phil McGraw

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It’s as if I’m racist towards white girls!

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.

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.

I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

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

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We’re not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don’t know how to manage our emotions once we’re in a marriage; we don’t know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

“They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.

If I’m not interested in a woman, I’m straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!’

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.