Hammarskjold, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl

Swedish diplomat

secretary-general of UN 1953-1961

led UN mediation in Congo to quell Katanga revolt

posthumous Nobel Prize in Peace 1961

died in airplane crash

• "You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for"
• "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."
• ".....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget!"
• "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."
• "Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice."