Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.