Tyra Banks

"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet."

"My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant."

"On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'"

"Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will."

"Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!"

"There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are."

"When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day."