All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

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?

Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

What does your product really mean to the people who buy it?