Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. ”

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ”

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. ”