What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

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.

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.