An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.
It is impossible to please all the world
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
You can't go east and west at the same time.
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
You can't please everyone.
Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.
You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
A mission to entertain the world is a good one because it's impossible to achieve.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.
There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.
You can't win every year. This is impossible in England.
