I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Rick Perry

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Carl Gustav Jung

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Mahatma Gandhi

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Lynda Barry

The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.

Thomas Carlyle

The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

P. J. O'Rourke

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

Thomas S. Monson

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose