Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."

"To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky."