"If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians."

“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

“People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.”

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”

“My mom actually took me to get my first tattoo when I was 15. She highly regrets that choice now, as I have a lot more.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“This is the great Secret of life.”

“So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.”

“You are here. You are not the one who will go and come. Let what you're suffering from go and come, not you. You stay put.”

“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct