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.

Albert Einstein - How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

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.

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

Jeremy Taylor - Love is friendship set on fire.

G. Moore - Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.

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.

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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

Margaret Mitchell - I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

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

We live and we love. It doesn't matter if we are famous or non-descript. It doesn't matter if we are rich or poor. In the end, love makes us richer than any coins ever could.