“Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.”

“I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.”

“Let's chew on the chewables!”

“We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.”

“A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.”

“The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.”

“Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.”

“The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.”

“Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.”

“You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”

“Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.”