“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.”
Source: East of Eden
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“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”
Explaining the meaning of his name in his native Makonde language. AFP https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/mozambique-gears-key-vote-002759683.html
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees