Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

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.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.