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

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

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

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

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

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

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

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.

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

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

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

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

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

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads if were lucky were the same kids as we were when we were young.

I always say now that Im in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

The interesting thing is how one guy through living out his own fantasies is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers parents and society you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

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

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.