An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

Everyone's dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

What is good for society is also good for business.

I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?