Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

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.

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.

Let us go beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Let us vanish in the beauty of love.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.