Synopsis:
You can easily create safe and easy-to-remember passwords by basing them on topics of interest to you, and combining ordinary words and phrases with a number and a symbol.

Solution:
A secure password must meet a few specific requirements: you must use

• at least eight characters,
• upper and lower case letters,
• numbers, and
• symbols.

Base your password on your own interests (your reading, travel, gardening, sports...) -- that will make it easier to create, and easier to remember. Don't use these examples, but make up your own.

Take two words and a number, and separate them with a symbol between each pair.
-- shoe,3,Store (what's on your shopping list?)
-- 1/red-Tomato (what are you growing in your garden?)

Combine a word or initials about something of interest to you with a symbol and a number:
-- 258=myPrius (for a car buff whose license plate has the numbers 258)
-- NYG17>Pats14 (New York/New Jersey sports fans might get a smile from that)
-- Paris,April2010 (are you planning a special trip?)

Use a phrase or title, and obscure it with creative representations of each word:
-- 1Fish,deuxFish (for Dr. Seuss readers)
-- 7habitsOF+folks (for those who enjoy personal growth reading)

Use a phrase, a line in a song or poem, a quote -- in English or a foreign language that uses the Latin alphabet. If you don't mind typing a longer password, use the whole phrase, with a number and symbol inserted (don't use spaces):
-- Oh!SusannaOhDon'tYouCry4Me (for Stephen Foster fans)
-- TheyWent2SeaInASieve,TheyDid (for Edward Lear fans)

Or shorten such a phrase to the initial letters, mixing upper and lower case:
-- O!SODYC4Me
-- TW2SInAS,TD

While these examples illustrate a way to create strong passwords that are easy to remember, please do not use the specific passwords suggested above. Hackers often try to log in with passwords they find in presented material.