Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

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?

Learn to lose your destiny to find where it leads you

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.