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

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 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.

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

It is a direction not a destination.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.