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

“When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees”

“O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting.O, to see you again. Covered in spring.”

“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.*People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.”

“It’s hard to go out and search for the perfect moment… but sometimes, when you least expect it, the perfect moment finds you.”

“[Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.”