Dr Phil McGraw

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

The most you get is what you ask for.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

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

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

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.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five’s a charm?

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

One of the reasons why I think that me and Kim are very powerful together isn’t just the concept of celebrity or this mega rap star and this mega-beautiful pop star. It’s something I explain to my girl: She is who she is. I am who I am. We have advisers and friends and everything, but those people are who they are and we are who we are. And what I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

Strong relationships are the key.

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

What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character.

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