Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

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.

Only the living souls can praise the living God.

When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.It becomes you. Greatness becomes you.

sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.