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.

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

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

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

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