It's important to develop strategies to deal with them. Otherwise, you can be chronically fatigued, depressed or anxious, and your energy level goes way down.

[What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor! As John D. Barrow writes in] The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, ... started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

I don’t care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn’t for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

These people are models for all of us.