This is not a President who places his faith in the wisdom of men.
Thus, the genocide became a great "failure" of the West which, in turn, has paved the way for Rwanda's "rehabilitation" to be viewed as a great triumph, built on the aid of foreign powers and the wisdom of men like Tony Blair and Bill Gates.
He was firm but blunt, speaking with the wisdom of a man who had been there before and won.
But always, in those conversations, there were moments when the kindness, and generosity, and wisdom of the man shone through.
Proficient in nine languages – he addressed his murderers in Bulgarian – he read and thought deeply in his own, displaying the wisdom of a man four times his age.
Upon the death of this destroyer of multitudes, the head of the Jacobite Syriac Church said, "The wisdom of this man, and his greatness of soul, and his wonderful actions are incomparable.... Great sorrow came to all the Christians throughout the world".
"ONE of my favourite old Kentucky sayings is there's no education in the second kick of a mule," says Senator Mitch McConnell, with the homespun wisdom of a man facing re-election shortly.
After all, the wisdom of a man who he did his first marathon in a pair of Green Flash and stopped in a ditch for a can of Coke when he got tired deserves to be shared.
But, under its current, supposedly corporate priorities, British higher education is going in the opposite direction to the wisdom of this man who has been so successful in business.
After all, Trump University isn't here to coddle its students but, rather, to grant us access to the cold, hard wisdom of a man who has fired Gene Simmons on television.
