And as for 'How has the work of Dr. Seuss inspired you throughout your life?', the Lorax has certainly wormed its way into my ethos, but Horton Hears a Who and the Butter Battle Book have had a more profound effect. From the former

a person’s a person, no matter how small

The latter's harder to encapsulate in a quote, though

This machine was so modern, so frightfully new,
no one knew quite exactly just what it would do!

gets close re: the strange impetus new weapon development gives to starting wars.

I also think How the Grinch Stole Christmas did a better job of helping me lose some of the cultural hangups commercialism tries so incredibly hard to ingrain in kids in the US around celebrations of family & community than just about anything else.

Maybe Christmas, he thought, means a little bit more.