"I know that small acts of valor may be all that is visible of great movement of courage within. For we are all the elect, each one of us, and we are embarked upon a journey to something unimaginable. We do not know what will be required of us, and we have nothing to sustain us but the counsel of our fathers."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 132)

"Nothing is ever finally arrived at. The journeyman becomes a master when he masters the journeyman's trade. He becomes a master when he ceases to wish to be one."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason (pg. 96)