Carlos Peña Rómulo, QSC, PLH (1899–1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General Assembly, and recipient of many honors and honorary degrees.
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There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
—Carlos P. Romulo
Topics: Friendship
We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
—Carlos P. Romulo
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