I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

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.

Who are you if nobody knows your story?

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.

You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.