As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

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

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.

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics...

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.