Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

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?

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).

Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]