Hugh Hefner

"In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life."

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

"My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds."

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

"The business end of business has never interested me."

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

"The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad."

"To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent."