Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

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?

Give yourself wherever you can, whenever you can. You will have more to give and share again and again.

When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.