Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

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 can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.