Orochimaru

“Well. I sort of have a goal. If I were to state it in words, I like to see moving things. They’re boring when they don’t move. A wind mill that is not moving can be nice from time to time, but most of the time its not even worth looking at. Now, I want to move the windmill with the wind called the Destruction of Konoha.”

“You can’t let your guard down for a second. Prey need to strain their minds all the time, and run around in the presence of a predator.”

"The only hope the prey has from a predator is to hand over something else to eat to save itself.”

“I want to master all techniques, and understand the truth of this world.

“The one who mixed blue and yellow for the first time called the new color green. I want to do something similar to that. If blue represents chakra, yellow represents seals. And green represents the technique. As there are many different colors, there are tens of thousands of techniques in this world.

“But to master all existing techniques, and understand the truth, that requires a lot of time. The person who spends that amount of time, and understands everything is worthy of being called the ultimate being. To me, the body’s lifespan is too short. It is too transient. Even if I were a Hokage, everything would end after I died.”

“A long time ago when the fourth Hokage was to be determined Orochimaru claimed that he was worthy enough to take the title. But he wasn’t accepted., and after a while, he left the village. Orochimaru most likely held a grudge against the Third for that.”

~Ebisu on Orochimaru

“Eyes . . . Eyes that had malice and ambition. I knew that he had those within him. I knew, and I pretended not to notice. It was still an era of war, and he was strong. A genius filled with potential. A once- in-decade genius. That’s why I wanted to believe that you would inherit my power and will.”

~thoughts of Third Hokage on Orochimaru