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.

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.

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.

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.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

Always let your heart sing

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

I truly believe that [America loves] the people that don't play to the audience and are just themselves.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.