No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

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?

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma.

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!