There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Affluence creates poverty.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.