Dr Phil McGraw

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.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.