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.
Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold