I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that's a rare thing.

Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."