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?

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Love gives you one more heart to beat for you.

As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.