It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

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?

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.