Dag Hammarskjold

"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it."

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."

"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day."