Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

If you're a ghost, " he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I still believe I have a part to play for England.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Do people have confidence? I think the real confidence you need is the confidence in your outlook, and I think people are pretty confident it is a low-growth world.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.