Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. – Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. – Dag Hammarskjold
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey