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

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.

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.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

A friend is a second self.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.