Dag Hammarskjold

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

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

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

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

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.