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

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.

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

Money chases good ideas

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

It is not just do do do. It is not just be be be. It is do be do be do.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.