There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

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.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

I'll try to do anything to win a game.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.