Quotes from Stephen Richards

I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

If your goals don't inspire you then why should you expect to achieve them?

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!

Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance.

If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick.

Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

I left the court feeling sure that Rose West would never walk free again. That thought made me happy.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur.

Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.

I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!

Rose West was starting 10 life sentences with no prospect of ever being released, Fred West had gone to hell, I had got my life back and the media circus had moved on to the next big scoop.

No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

Be first: achieve every dream.

Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's!

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

You know, the Lord said to Adam: 'Come forth, come forth,' and he came fifth and won the fucking apple, do you know what I mean. If you can walk away, walk away but it's hard to do

The films of Saturday Night Fever and Grease were all the rage and I'll admit, I went to see Grease at the local ABC Cinema with a few of my mates. You'd be surprised at how many so-called 'hard' lads that would be stood in the queue waiting to see Grease.

I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!

Some of the madmen are really fun to be with. I soon learnt to relate to them. I soon became one of them. I ended up the maddest of the mad. There is no madder than myself! Please believe it.

Desperation sends out the wrong messages, sends out the wrong vibrational output.

Shine Bright Like The Star Wars Jedi You Are.