Cause how you get there is the worthier part, he says.

He got there with grace, humor & enormous heart, Whedon tweeted.

He was, among so many other things, my Shepherd.

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Raise, appropriately, a glass.

Jewel Staite, who played Kaylee in the scene with Glass, posted a photo from the set.

This is me acting like an idiot just so I could hear Ron Glass laugh, she wrote.

He was the kind of person that remembered the details, that asked about your familys well-being.

He hugged hard and often.

He would laugh till he cried at a sick joke and top it with a worse one.

I love you, Ron.

Cant wait to see you again.

I dont care what you believe.

Just believe it.'

A rep for Glass confirmed to EW that he died of respiratory failure.