Dr Phil McGraw

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

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.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

We teach people how to treat us.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I don’t think members of the royal family sign prenuptial agreements

I would never buy Ivana any decent jewels or pictures. Why give her negotiable assets?

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

I think I had the best of James [Taylor]. I mean, I was so in love with him. Not with blinders on – I was in love with him because he is a remarkable man, and he gave me a tremendous amount.

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.

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

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?

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

She was always a little crazy, which is why I understand her so well.

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

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.