Dr Phil McGraw

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

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

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.