Given the universality of love, it is hardly surprising that there have been many people who have discussed the issue over time. The amazing things is that no matter their backgrounds or nationalities, they all seem to say the same thing in one form or antother.

Plato - He whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Lord Byron - Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

Elizabeth Ashley - In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Albert Camus - I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Jonathan Carroll - You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Sir Winston Churchill - Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Oscar Wilde - Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Jeremy Taylor - Love is friendship set on fire.

Kahlil Gibran - If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Jeanne Moreau - Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

Otomo No Yakamochi - Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Anonymous - Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Kyle Schmidt - I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Joan Crawford - Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Bill Wilson - To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Buddha - You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Samuel Butler - It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

As you can see, love is a concept that crosses all lines whether they be nations, areas of belief and even jobs. Love is out there. You just need to go give it a chance.