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

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

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.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

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.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.