We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

It is always impossible until it is done.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.