Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.