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

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

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

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.

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

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

I look at her and I see my future...and it looks glorious.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so.