A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

All good things remain forever for it is God's plan for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

We really did. We got married.