Money plays an essential role in causing the things in life to work as they should; money underlies the fulfillment of the needs of human existence.

Too much inactivity makes one less mentally acute.

A policy of revenge will lead to counterretaliations rather than peaceful resolutions.

(chiefly US) A house is simply a physical structure and does not count as a home until significant events in the inhabitants' lives have occurred there over a substantial period of time, and they have developed an emotional bond to the house and its immediate environs.

Alternative form of it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

To be knowledgeable about how the world works; to have common sense and judgement.

Alternative form of a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

To come to the wrong conclusion; to make a false inference.

In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.

Too much focus on one's career may lead to one being uninteresting company. / Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.