Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.