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

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.

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.

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

I'm not sure about these cookies ... They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever.

There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.