It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

Yes, ” Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. “Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca’s speech patterns?

In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing.

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

Madness in method, that's genius

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.