When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. -- Namie Amuro

Some suggestions for you :

When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Whatever one writes, comes to pass.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Death is Life's triumph!