A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

The only journey is within your spiritual self.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.