Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

There are many roads to Mecca.

— Hugh Hefner

Life and values do run in cycles.

— Hugh Hefner

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

— Hugh Hefner

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

— Hugh Hefner

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

— Hugh Hefner

The business end of business has never interested me.

— Hugh Hefner

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

— Hugh Hefner

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

— Hugh Hefner

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.

— Hugh Hefner

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

— Hugh Hefner

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

— Hugh Hefner

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

— Hugh Hefner

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual.

— Hugh Hefner

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm…

— Hugh Hefner

I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have…

— Hugh Hefner

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

— Hugh Hefner

I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through…

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since…

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the…

— Hugh Hefner

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual…

— Hugh Hefner

I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.…

— Hugh Hefner

The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's…

— Hugh Hefner

With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said…

— Hugh Hefner

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree…

— Hugh Hefner

Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I…

— Hugh Hefner

Maxim and FHM and the 'laddie books' are really just a downscale version of Playboy. The men's field is really hot today,…

— Hugh Hefner

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university…

— Hugh Hefner

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

— Hugh Hefner

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

— Hugh Hefner

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

— Hugh Hefner

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

— Hugh Hefner

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

— Hugh Hefner

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

— Hugh Hefner

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

— Hugh Hefner

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner