The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

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.

Faith is not so much something we believe

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.