Phil McGraw

“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 patr...”

“I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.”

“There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.”

“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.”

“Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.”

“Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.”

“It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.”

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

“You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.”

“A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.”

“Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.”

“Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.”

“I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”

“Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.”

“I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.”

“You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.”