The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

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.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.