You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her.

She was damaged and broken and there wasn’t any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.