Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete - Rod Serling

I wish to Christ that I had written a Stagecoach drama starring John Wayne instead.

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.