I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

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?

Life is too short for negativity. Focus all your energy to create happiness.

Owning less is better than organizing more.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!