You didn’t just survive, Van. You thrived. You’re the…

The strongest Person in this world is the Person hurt deep inside but keep smilling outside.

— MicahPulyn

“You’re the strongest person I’ve ever known, but someone smart and brave once told me that it’s always the strongest that fall the hardest.…

— Kate McCarthy

You have to decide whether you're going to let your past destroy you or whether you're going to let it build you into the…

— Sonya Parker

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free…

— Ha-Joon Chang

I've always thrived on getting a drive from different emotional circumstances that I'm going through.

— Ronnie Wood

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was…

— Maya Angelou

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

— Frank Rich

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs…

— Rodney Atkins

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a…

— Elaine Pagels

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country…

— Siri Hustvedt

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

— Dana Reeve

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was…

— Jack Schwartz

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated…

— Willard Boyle