Diplomacy requires maintaining calmness and rationality, free from emotions and personal biases.
"The power of words lies in their ability to create worlds within worlds."
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.
But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.