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

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

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

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

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson