Quotes by Phillip C. McGraw

I hope we don't ever just kind of become Stepford Americans where everybody is just kind of going along and nodding their heads.

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.

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

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

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.

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't that close and don't know each other that well and overcrowd them into a small room for an extended period of time so they can make each other miserable.

Really, everybody sometimes will think about Christmas, Christmases past, like it was a Currier & Ives print, you know, the candle in the window, the snow on the sill, and isn't this wonderful? But the truth was Uncle Harry got drunk, the kids were fighting over the toys, there wasn't enough money, you overate.

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.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

You stop and think about it, we are in the biggest information explosion I think in the history of the world. It's just in this generation that when you and I were growing up, there wasn't even a word for Internet or World Wide Web, for example. We had three TV channels. We were watching either Lucy or Gunsmoke or Ricky Nelson.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.