words to inspire before you expire

Tag: Fame

“‘ . . . it is necessary for a knight-errant to wander about the world, seeking adventures, by way of probation; that by achieving some he may acquire such fame and renown, that, when he comes to the court of some great monarch, he shall be known by his works beforehand . . . ‘”

—from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

“I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me.”

—from The Diary of Anne Frank on Tuesday, 4 April, 1944