“I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.” IfsBelieveAgeNumbersHealthyOld AgeAges Is Just A Number Author:Hugh Hefner
“One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.” IfsThinkingKnowsGenerationsWho You AreYesterdayYounger GenerationSad Things Author:Hugh Hefner
“If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.” IfsBookHelpingLightTurnsSexDarkExpressionHealthyConversationEverydayMagazinesTurn-onUnhealthy Author:Hugh Hefner
“If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.” IfsLongI CanHappensLosesAliveGenerationsPromiseDeserveBallsMagazinesVigorousEditorialsPlayboyI'm Alive Author: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 planning on another quarter century.” IfsThinkingAgeMotherNumbersCenturyHealthyPlanningQuarters Author:Hugh Hefner
“I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.” IfsThinkingFeelsFeelingsBodySexualityFeel GoodMasturbationNot Feeling Good Author:Hugh Hefner
“Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.” IfsKidsYoungLife IsLuckyBittersweet Author:Hugh Hefner
“If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.” IfsWho You ArePeersPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“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.” IfsEndsPlayWould BeYoungPerfectPlansQuittingCombinationWorking ItRetiringI QuitWork And PlayPerfect Combination Author:Hugh Hefner
“I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenMistakeWonderfulMarriedGetting MarriedWonderful Children Author:Hugh Hefner
“It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindMeanDoeSpiritualUniverseSidesAnswersClearPlanetsConnectionsComplexesMythFantasticAweMotivatedOverwhelmingHumankindComprehensionInexplicable Author:Hugh Hefner
“The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.” IfsWorldTurnsSexGenerationsObjectsNotionRoundsAttractionRidiculousSkirtsLipstickPlayboyShort Skirts Author:Hugh Hefner
“If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.” IfsReverseHomosexual Author:Hugh Hefner
“I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.” IfsWorldWayLifeLittlesFoundMoralThis WorldRewardsThis LifeUrgesAfterlifeBetter Place Author:Hugh Hefner
