Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.