The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?