Welcome to the ‘Age of Influence,’ where anyone can build an audience and effect change, advocate brands, build relationships and make a difference.

The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

“This means that the intrinsic power of the economy mainly market forces instead of factors outside the economy was having a greater influence, which was a good thing.”

“If they provide more treatment than is normally available in that country, it could be seen as unduly influencing people to join the trials by offering superior healthcare.”

“Many people believe the strip clubs are the last vestiges of mob influence. Some of them have a mob past, and some of them don't.”

“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip-off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.”

“We don't have that much influence over Chinese oil interests. We're watching. That's about all we can do.”

“The life of our generation is now set. We do not have the power to influence the flow of events, and no right to offer advice to the next generation.”

“I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.”