Oprah Magazine profiled Newark mayor Cory Booker in its latest issue. I liked the piece - and i personally like the mayor, especially his inspirational tweets :).

Here are some of the tidbits that I enjoyed:

“[Booker] as a product of Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Law School who has been writing down his goals on a whiteboard since college (and in a “goals journal” before that).

“At 41, Booker jokes frequently about his “failed personal life”—”It’s the one area you can’t put up on the whiteboard,” he says. “I definitely want a partner, somebody to talk to at the end of the day. Honestly, just lying next to somebody is like a gift from God. Forget the sex—just having someone spend the night is a great thing.”

“He’s been a vegetarian since Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. As Booker describes it in his soothing, storyteller’s tenor, “I decided to take to heart Socrates’ admonishment about the unexamined life”—the one that says such a life isn’t worth living. “And I started reading everything I could. And the more I read, from the environmental impact of eating meat to the health issues to Gandhi, the more I realized that eating the extreme amounts that I really enjoyed was not resonant with my spirit, with my values. So I tried to go cold turkey, and my body just took off—I felt so good. I’m not one of those judgmental vegetarians who says everybody should do this, but for me it works, and it works very well.”

You can read the rest of the profile here: http://www.oprah.com/world/Newark-Mayor-Cory-Booker-Profile