Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

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.

I fall off horses, " he explained to Loghain with a sickly grin. "It's this thing I do.

To make this world joyful, let your heart overflow with joy.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.