I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

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.

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.