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

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.

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.

I loved doing problems in school.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.