Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never complain and never explain.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.