[maryz]

"Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize — Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela — my accomplishments are slight. . . ."

He could have pointed out, though, that compared to Jimmy Carter and Al Gore and Yassir Arafat, he fits right in! :)

As Golda Meir used to say, "Don't be so humble -- you're not that great!"

[kabar]

Or as Winston Churchill said about Clement Attlee, “Clement is a very humble man … of course, he does have a lot to be humble about.”