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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Aristotle - Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

Rose Franken - Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Ingrid Bergmen - A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

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.

Richard Bach - Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

James Baldwin - Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Mozart - Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Washington Irving - Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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

Montaigne - If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me."

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.

Kahlil Gibran - Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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.