Dr Phil McGraw

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.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

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

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

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

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do 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.

“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.

I never felt I was too protective. I felt I was functioning as a dam against the river of sh*t that comes pouring down on artists, and it was a job that I took very seriously.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.

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

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

I’m a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It’s very scary. I’m open to it, but I just want to make sure that I’m taking my time.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt