A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

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.

If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

The proverb is something musty.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.