Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn’t thrive when it doesn’t reach an audience

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive.

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.