Phil McGraw

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

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.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

People are used to being coddled.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

There are some sick people in this world.

God is a loving god.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

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.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.