A. J. Jacobs

It's sort of my job to feel good.

— A. J. Jacobs

After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You…

— A. J. Jacobs

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

— A. J. Jacobs

“The key is to pump up your righteous anger and mute your petty resentment. I'll be happy if I can get that…

— A. J. Jacobs

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

— A. J. Jacobs

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

— A. J. Jacobs

I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people…

— A. J. Jacobs

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

— A. J. Jacobs

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times…

— A. J. Jacobs

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud…

— A. J. Jacobs

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

— A. J. Jacobs

There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I…

— A. J. Jacobs

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

— A. J. Jacobs

I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my…

— A. J. Jacobs

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying…

— A. J. Jacobs

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

— A. J. Jacobs

Behavior shapes beliefs.

— A. J. Jacobs

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

— A. J. Jacobs

Its sort of my job to feel good.

— A. J. Jacobs

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The…

— A. J. Jacobs

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward…

— A. J. Jacobs

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before…

— A. J. Jacobs

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

— A. J. Jacobs

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like,…

— A. J. Jacobs

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

— A. J. Jacobs