Joe Biden

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

[on Trump] This guy’s shame has no limits.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

There is power in forgiveness.

You have to name it to claim it.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

A man is as old as his arteries.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.