Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

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.

not all feeling of butterflies in the tummy means love, it might sometimes mean lust, fear, hunger e.t.c

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.