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

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.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.