“Consider the honey-bee. Its treasure is nectar, obtained even from the chilly plant. It is not at the cost of the flower. In fact, its act of extracting honey contributes to the progress of the flowers. You need not learn from Kahlil Gibran, Marx or Gorbachev, not even from Gandhiji. Choose instead to learn your lesson from the honey bees as your silent partners: they will show you how to develop without destroying.”

“You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that.”

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”

“How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!”

“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”

“The loorie brought to his cinnamon nest.
The bee from the midst of its honey quest,
And open the leaves of the lotus lay
To welcome the noon of the summer day.”

“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”