I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

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.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin.” - Taliesin

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.