There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.

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.

Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step.

I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.