My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our o...
Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable mar...
Example has more followers than reason.
Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.