Non-believers who think Jesus was great, how do you deal with...?

...the crazy stuff he is supposed to have said? Do you ume that he really didn't say those things? Or do you just ignore the issue of what he said or didn't say and put together your own flavor of Jesus in your mind? If you just take the good stuff, then how do you decide to appreciate someone who's at least half bad? I'm sure that some time in his life, George W Bush said something profound. At least once. No? Ok, bad example, but you know what I mean. Why pick Jesus as worthy, and not anyone else who's half nuts?