Dr Phil McGraw

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.

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

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

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

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.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

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.

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

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.

“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.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

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

True friends stab you in the front.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody’s face while we’re having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

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.

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.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished, but because the wounded are merciful.

Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind.

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