It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.
Dag HammarskjoldTo reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
Dag Hammarskjold