“The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say ‘it’s in!’

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not ‘hot and happening.’

I think it’s so cool to be tall. Even when I’m not wearing heels people tell me I’m tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

Don’t be negative. It shows on your face.

I eat only simple Indian home food – sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.