“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it is not,they will not entertain evidence or reason.Delusion becomes a choice.”

“You cannot work science around a predetermined belief system; you can only work (or rework) a belief system around science, current knowledge, and new evidence. If you are not willing to do that, you believe in the fanciful instead of understanding the factual – and that is delusional.”

“I spent 43 years believing in a false religion. Now I want my 43 years as an atheist. God owes me that.”

“If God does exist - He is not very good at religion.”

“If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.”

“The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.”

“Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.”