What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

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

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.

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die ...

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.

We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.