39 Quotes by Paul Rusesabagina

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play – if we want to change the world – we must first show up on the field to score.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we’re breathing we shouldn’t further complicate our lives.

I think I’m a happy man, and I’m a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

This is why I say that the individual’s most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

If anybody tried to threaten me I would simply look him in the eye and ask him in a firm but friendly voice, “Why?” The bully would have no choice but to engage me verbally, and this made violence next to impossible. I learned that it is very difficult to fight someone with whom you are already talking.