Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

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?

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

The moment is a miracle.

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.