Dag Hammarskjold

Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), full name Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He was posthumously awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1961.

Wisdom & Quotes

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

- Markings

• Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

- Markings

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

- Diaries

J Robert Oppenheimer