Joe Biden

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.

A man’s library is a sort of harem.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

We must substitute courage for caution.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.