No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15

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.

I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.

Be thankful.Be grateful.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.