Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Short cuts make long delays.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Where love is, there God is also.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Take my wife… Please!

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.