On Valentine's Day ...

The love between a man and a woman is one of life’s great consolations, and one of the universe’s great mysteries.

A man can endure almost anything if it is for love; and he will give up almost anything in pursuit of it.

A woman will sacrifice her world for love; and the whole world is hardly enough to compensate her when it is missing.

In a finite world, there are no limits to what love will do.

That most famous of all romantics, Meatloaf, famously sang, ‘I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that…’

And yet was at a loss as to what ‘that’ was.

Love will drive a manly man to write a poem and cause a gentle man to go to war.

True love can tame the most independent woman, while hell itself hath no fury like a woman scorned.

The thrill of love has inspired a billion songs. The pain of love lost, a billion more.

Give me a love story over any other kind.

Wait. Is there any other kind?

The Apostle John insisted ‘God is love’, which made English poet W.S. Gilbert’s quip that ‘love makes the world go round’ seem far too modest. Love rules the universe …