What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.

The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

I wanted to feel less.To not be burdened by emotion, To not feel sadness, To not know loss.I envied the inanimate, The trees that stand proudly in winter, Not missing their leaves.

Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost my breath in the shadowy remembrances.

The key to leadership remains influence. What kind of a leader are you and how do you deliberately model your leadership to achieve desired impact on those you influence or you seek to influence?

Winning has always meant much to me but winning ftiends has meant the most.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.