“In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.”

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!”

“(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.”

“As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world’s powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world’s powers left Rwanda to it.”