Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we have been deprived of everything, when we have been deprived of hope, then bless you, fourteen hours of sleep!

Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you're ugly,

How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn’t. 9–5 is arbitrary.

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! (From the Haymarket era eight-hour campaign)

I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future.

I aim to find time in my schedule for a decent night's sleep without cutting into my drinking time.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Last night I didn’t sleep for a solid eight hours. No, it melted a little. Damn global warming.

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.