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.

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.

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.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.