Diplomacy requires maintaining calmness and rationality, free from emotions and personal biases.

I'm not a person who is comfortable with compliments. I don't like to be put on a pedestal.

"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."