But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Share too much and someone can hurt you.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.