2 Quotes by Veda Vyasa

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.