I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

I'm gonnna break your faces!

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.