"The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that.""
Source : Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway