Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

We all possess a hidden power to control our destiny. Attitude and determination are the keys we must use to unleash it.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

The beauty of words that heals my soul.

There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.