Dr Phil McGraw

You have to name it to claim it.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There’s a big difference between knowing and doing. It’s not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it’s how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you’re right, your future will be dim.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.