My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.