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“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.”
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“We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.”
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“The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.”
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
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“Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.”
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“I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.”
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“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”
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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Source : "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002. 
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“Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.”
