“Neglected dreams become regrets.”
— Stephen Richards
“Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.”
— Stephen Richards
“Positive thoughts and words will create a force inside you that communicates with the outside world and brings about profusion in all things around you.”
— Stephen Richards
“If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words ‘if only’.”
— Stephen Richards
“Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset.”
— Stephen Richards
“The makeup of your thoughts is exposed through your internal dialog.”
— Stephen Richards
“If you can’t win with words then show them a good example!”
— Stephen Richards
“Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!”
— Stephen Richards
“Turning images from within our minds into reality is a gift we are all born with.”
— Stephen Richards
“Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward.”
— Stephen Richards
“If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick.”
— Stephen Richards
“You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power!”
— Stephen Richards
“Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.”
— Stephen Richards
“Gazing out of the window, the gravel path roared as it was crushed into submission under the wheels of the car that was taking me towards a menacing looking medieval castle with two huge and terrifying turrets that seemingly reached out towards me. I imagined that I was the gravel and the wheels of the car were the social care system.”
— Stephen Richards
“If you could get anything at all off Santa, what would it be?’ I asked for a fire engine and sweets. Bunty exclaimed in delight, ‘Santa will get you that, but you and Scott will need to leave out a bowl of milk and some carrots for Rudolph.’ ‘Who’s Rudolph?’ I asked. Bunty told me in confidence that Rudolph was Santa’s reindeer and that he helped pull all the children’s toys in the world over the snow. I couldn’t wait. In readiness for Rudolph, Scott, Martha, Bunty and I picked out four of the biggest carrots from a bag in the kitchen, which we then washed. We found a big bowl that we used to lick the cream out of, which we filled with milk. We put the bowl along with the carrots under the Christmas tree, with all the other children’s offerings. Then Bunty and Martha came in and washed us, put us to bed and read us a story, before kissing us good night. On their way out they said, ‘When you wake up, Santa will have been’.”
— Stephen Richards
“Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I’d never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, ‘He brings little angels like you, presents.”
— Stephen Richards
“I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.”
— Stephen Richards
“No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it … not God!”
— Stephen Richards
“Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a ‘hidden’ crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.”
— Stephen Richards
“A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse.”
— Stephen Richards
“From a young boy’s viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you belonged to the devil, and this bullying of me went on for a long time.”
— Stephen Richards
“I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don’t cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them.”
— Stephen Richards
“From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn’t accept it and I just wouldn’t accept it.”
— Stephen Richards
“I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn’t Born Free, it was RUN FREE!”
— Stephen Richards
“All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!!”
— Stephen Richards
“Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.”
— Stephen Richards
“With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that … pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.”
— Stephen Richards
“This was a new buzz, better than anything I’d tried before. For the first time, I could fight back at others. I’d even fight with a parked car! I was totally kyboshed on these drugs, I didn’t care how many boys were standing outside the pub, I’d run over and fight the lot of them. Even though I came off second best, in my mind, I still walked away a winner. I showed them I wasn’t a little shit-bag that always got battered, not when I had the drugs in me.”
— Stephen Richards
“The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.”
— Stephen Richards
“You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!”
— Stephen Richards