Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her”

“Husband: a former boyfriend”

“I used to say why save money if I'll die tomorrow, I haven’t died yet and I have nothing to survive on”

“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds”

“Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring”

“I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion”

“Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some”

“As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.”

“Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold”

“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.”

“Every book has its ancestors”

“Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein”

“State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.”

“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom”

“A final victory is a succession of small victories”

“Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure”

“We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.”

“I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married”

“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great”

“Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts”