“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“The art of a diplomat is to conceal all turbulence behind his smile.”
On his Facebook status on 24 November 2013. According to [Kamali Dehghan, Saeed, Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran's man on a diplomatic mission, The Guardian, 2013-11-25, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/mohammad-javad-zarif-iran-profile, harv, 2015-04-04]
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