I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

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.

Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

I need a template of a template

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.