Quotes from 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.

I went for a private sitting with a clairvoyant and got some really good messages off him, but one thing that did frighten me was when he said, 'I can see a lot of fist fighting with you.

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

I got my lawyer to visit me in the jail. He couldn't believe the bruising over my body, so he pulled the governor and asked why I was covered in marks. The governor said to my lawyer that it was 'self-inflicted' and was caused by my 'running into walls'. That part was disproved because walls don't leave footprints all over your body.

I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!

A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can't give up. Why die? There is always another mission; it's the missions that keep you alive.

What the gurus were now selling was rehashed woo-woo! Now with NAPS you can truly use the Law of Attraction to its full potential, making all of those self-help books and audios obsolete!

Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes…we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.

You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!

Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

When you believe in yourself sufficiently and are confident that everything that you desire is inside you then you will possess the ability to produce all that you wish for.

In fact you need do nothing to be connected with the Law of Attraction! Whether you like it or not, since the very beginning of time, it is an unyielding, never bending, unbreakable universal rule. You cannot escape it!

As they crept closer, I decided to make my move first and surprise them. I selected my prey, the biggest one! The reasoning behind this is that if you deck the largest and strongest one out of a group then it sends out a clear-cut message to the rest of them.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' "Doc,' I said, '…you're the problem!

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.

You get used to the brain being squeezed. At nighttime in the darkness of your emptiness, it seems to swell back up and gives you some peace. In the darkness even the pain is not so bad. A bruise heals. (Time is the treatment.) But it's your mind that's tortured. Your thoughts are in turmoil and despair. Feelings of awesome revenge and destruction manifest themselves.

Many have rehashed the great works of Plato, and coming forward to the 20th century even Napoleon Hill gave us rehashed woo-woo when he replicated Wallace D. Wattles.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

If you start identifying your inner self with the spirit of pure potentiality then you are aligning with the power that helps in the manifestation of all energy in the form of matter.

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.